Robyn King asked Madeline Miller:

Would you ever consider writing a book about Medusa with a similar style as you did with Circe? I loved reading Circe and the story of Medusa is so powerful and so open for interpretation, I'd love to see your take on it.

Madeline Miller Hello Lucy, and thank you! I have been getting a lot of questions about Medusa lately, and I love that the women of Greek mythology are getting re-evaluated--especially the ones that have been vilified. There are different versions of Medusa's story, but in one, she is raped by Poseidon in Athena's shrine, then turned into a monster by Athena as punishment for defiling (!) her temple. Medusa is a character rich with so much resonance--as a victim of injustice, as well as a perpetrator of it. But she isn't the character who has taken up residence in my brain for this next novel. Maybe she'll appear later, I never know, but in the meantime, I hope that others will tackle her story.

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